Man, it was another era, no internet or cable television (well, maybe there was some cable but not for us lower end of the economic scale folks), and I was getting rocked by this amazing shit for the first time. I’d soon start hearing and going to see local L.A. rappers like Ice-T and the Egyptian Lover, but not yet. Music took longer to ferment then. A group of people would discover a sound that would stew in a slow burn, taking in the character of the neighborhood they lived in. The unearthing of new music was a deeply social, communal experience.
